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Explore the process of going from a prototype to a manufactured product. Learn about different ways you can prototype a new product, the types of resources available to you, and how products evolve from prototypes to manufactured objects.

- So, let's say you have this ideaand you've already gone through the conceptand you like where things are going.What's next?Hi, I'm Scott Clear.I'm the Chief Design and Innovation Officer at RKS Design.In this course, we're going to visit a few facilitiesthat show us how they prototype and manufacture.We're going to see a Cleantech Incubatorhere in the city of Los Angeles that helps startupsthat focus in the cleantech area and how they prototypeand them help them manufacture their ideasand sell them in the product place.

We're also going to talk to a design agency,and that design agency is going to show ushow they prototype internallyand how they share their ideas from concept to productionthrough prototyping methods.And they'll go through visual prototypes,engineering prototypes, functional prototypes.We'll also meet with an industrial designerthat specializes in haptics,and that means how something feels.And he's going to share with us how he can find outhow something feels through prototypingbefore it gets manufactured.And finally, we're going to speak to oneof the world's leading innovation companieson how they take a material that's going to be scaledand look at prototyping it before they commercialize it.

So please me join me in seeinghow we can take your concepts, get them prototyped,and follow that into manufacturing.

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1/18/2018

Making a product real involves starting with an idea, evolving the product through a prototype, and then making many copies of the final design. A lot happens between those last two steps, and this course examines those phases. Instructor Scott Clear covers the different ways you can prototype a new product, discusses the types of resources available to you, and explains how products evolve from prototypes to manufactured
objects. Throughout the course, he puts these concepts in context by conducting interviews with experts in prototyping and manufacturing.